10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (426+ words) The French UN mission said it regretted an online post criticising a US vote at the UN General Assembly in a move that should clear the way for the new French ambassador Aurélien Lechevallier to take up his post in…...

10+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1222+ words) It was election day in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and Alaa Yakoub Agha was overjoyed. The 55-year-old Syrian, now a German citizen, had voted for the first time since arriving in the country in 2015. Her happiness was short-lived. During…...

6+ hour, 52+ min ago   (397+ words) Staff at public broadcaster Radio France began a two-day strike on Sunday over the appointment of Charles Sapin, deputy editor-in-chief at far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles. Unions accuse Sapin of promoting far-right ideas ahead of next spring's presidential election, while management…...

12+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1038+ words) Water affects almost every part of daily life: drinking, sanitation, food production, health, jobs and the natural environment. Yet in South Africa, three million people don’t have clean running water, and 14 million have no flushing toilets. Climate change and recurring…...

20+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1741+ words) And with that, we are going to put the blog to bed. Before we go, let’s recap the big headlines. Energy minister Chris Bowen sought to reassure Australians about the nation’s supply reserves. He said Australia had 41 days worth of…...

11+ hour, 39+ min ago   (496+ words) France has expressed regret over a social media post questioning the United States’ commitment to human rights, in a move expected to clear the way for its new ambassador to take up his post in Washington. “France and the United…...

3+ day, 32+ min ago   (495+ words) When Charlie Kirk was fatally assassinated in September 2025, his passing changed the course of his wife Erika Kirk’s life almost overnight. She went from being known mainly as the wife of the Turning Point USA founder to becoming the organization’s…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (284+ words) A Senate subcommittee is investigating OpenAI's handling of the hacking of Hugging Face in July as concerns about the potential dangers posed by AI continue to grow. Senator Josh Hawley, the chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Disaster Management, sent…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (504+ words) A crumbling and vacant Grade II listed former town hall is costing an east London council approximately £850,000 each year for standing empty. Hackney Council revived efforts to restore the 90-year-old Stoke Newington Town Hall when it was placed on Historic…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (724+ words) A coalition of civil rights groups and voting rights advocates are suing to block Donald Trump’s administration from deploying immigration enforcement agents to polling places on Election Day. The administration has not explicitly outlined plans to send armed Immigration and…...